Combination tool



May 15, 1923.-

B. J. BlDDL-E" COMBINATION Toor..

Filed April 18, 1922 Fatented May l5, i923.

. wat. ai-geg EENJAMIH I. BDDLE, GE' MONTVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

comarnarron Toor..

Application filed Apri118, 1922. Serial No. 554,863.

-and useful Improvements in Combination Tools, of which the following is a specification.

Ihis inventionrelates to improvements in carpenters tools and has for its object to provide means whereby an ordinary saw having astraight edge; may be used as a carpenters square. Y

Another object of the invention is to provide a combined saw and carpenters square.

Another object of .the invention is to provide a device which may be attached to an ordinary saw having a straight edge, whereby a carpenters square may be provided.

With the above and other objects lin view I have invented the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which-f,y

Figure l is an elevational view of a saw embracing my invention;

F ig. 2 is a top edge View thereof;

F ig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. l; F ig. 4 is an enlarged detailed perspective view of a square-forming attachment; and

Fig. 5 is'a fragmental view of a pattern from which said attachment is formed.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the following specification and in the several views4 in the drawings, in which 1 indicates a saw having a straight edge2 and to which is attached a flange.

member 3, said member 3 being stamped from flat sheet-metal as 1ndicated in Fig. 5, and having a clamp portion 4 formed at right angles to the flanges 5 and 6 'said member 4 being U-shaped and adaptedv to straddle the saw blade adjacent the handle' 7 of the saw and which is secured in place by means of rivets 8. The flanges 5 and 6 seat at right angles to the blade 1, whereby said flanges together with the straight ed e 2 form a square. Asabove stated, my e-' 'vicefis ori ally a flat strip of'sheet metal whihsis ten bent up into angle-iron shape square. f

with its anges at right angles to the plane o'f the body portion, there being a small sec- 50 tion of said flanges at an equal distance f from each end cut away, which then allows the body portion to be folded to make a U- shaped strap.

The advantages of a device of this/kind Vy is very apparent, as two very important and essential carpenters tools are provided in the one instrument, thus the carpenter is not only saved the Atrouble of looking for a square when he wants it, but is also saved the time necessary to change tools.

Having described my invention, that which I claim to be new and desire to procure by Letters Patent' is:

1.111 combination with a saw, flanges formed transversely .o to the blade thereof, said saw having a straight edge arranged at right angles to said flanges, and a U-shaped strap upon which said flanges are formed, said strap straddling the blade of and being riveted in place thereon.

2. A device of the kind described, consisting of a U-shaped strap adapted-to Straddle a saw blade, each arm of said strap having a right-angular flange forming a short arm of a carpenters square, and means whereby said strap may be fixed to said blade, whereby said short arms may coact with the straight edge lof said blade to form said square.

whereby the device may be fixed to said 3.5

blade, the spaced-apart members of said first ange each forming a short arm at right angles to the back edge of said blade, wllxereby said edge and arms form a/ carpenters In testimonywhereof I ax my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

` BENJAMIN JJBIDDLE. Witnesses:

Louis CArwooD, ALBERT O. fr f f said saw 70 so 3. A device of the kind described, consist- 

